-The Hindu The Central government’s decision this week to extend the interest subvention scheme on bank loans given to land-owning Farmers at 7 per cent is essentially a welcome move. This is especially so in a context where there is no real clarity on how the current monsoon will turn out to be, running at a deficit of 7 per cent as it does currently. With an additional subvention component of...
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Properly used, Jan Dhan Yojna could lessen Farmers' suicides
-Hindustan Times For a country that is set to be ranked among the world’s top five economies over the next decade, India cannot afford to be counted as a home for impoverished Farmers who are ending their lives because they do not have the money to return loans as small as Rs 10,000. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, 5,650 Farmers committed suicide in India last year. Bankruptcy and...
More »India’s new farm suicides data: myths and facts -Rukmini S
-The Hindu There has been a lot of misreporting and conspiracy theorising about the new farm suicide numbers. No doubt, these numbers – as with most crime data – likely underestimate the problem. Farmers without clear land title, for instance, may not be recognised as Farmers, artificially lowering their number. The negative media reporting around farm suicides may also be an incentive against the police reporting a farm suicide as one. These...
More »Did the number of farmer suicides really halve last year? -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Change of definition behind fall rather than plan for bettering lot of poor Farmers, improving agricultural economy New Delhi: Between 2013 and 2014, the number of farmer suicides halved. That’s what the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) which tracks farmer suicides would have us believe. It isn’t an improvement in India’s agricultural economy or a programme aimed at bettering the lot of poor Farmers that has achieved this. Instead, it is a...
More »This is how the Indian government reduced farm suicides in the country in a year India -Steffy Thevar
-TheNewsMinute.com From 2013 to 2014, farmer suicides in India have halved, but Farmers’ groups and activists are not rejoicing. Severely criticizing the government, they say that the authorities have merely come up with disingenuous categories which are designed to move the deaths from the columns that record Farmers’ suicides to ones that rule them out. In its Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report for 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau’s said...
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